NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hot topping for a

cone?

5 Practical joke 9 Tricky billiard shot 14 Way off 15 Ensconced in 16 Asian dog breed 17 *Ensign

19 Rich sources of

beta carotene 20 Joint

21 One of millions in

New Zealand 23 Migration

pattern?

24 Lose one’s shirt,

say

25 *Emirate

28 Coup planners 30 Ensiform, adj.:

Shaped like a ___ 31 ___ Valley 34 Singer Williams who founded the Temptations 36 Split up 38 Pre-med pre-req 39 *Arbiter

41 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, e.g.

42 Came to pass 44 Bibliographer’s

abbr. 45 Ceremony 46 They’re typically older than seniors

48 One in it for the

long haul 50 *Depot

52 Put on a big

smile 56 ___ Formosa (barrier island system of Portugal) 57 Figure in

I Samuel 58 Issuance from an American embassy, in brief 59 Discombobulated 61 *Begin

64 Meant to be 65 “And so …” 66 Actor Woo-shik

of “Parasite” 67 Long hauls 68 Doesn’t stay

tight 69 Hankerings

DOWN

1 Scores 2 Underway 3 Steamy stuff 4 Most-grown coffee bean in the world 5 Copacetic

6 Bon ___ 7 Exemplar of

neatness

8 Barely defeated 9 Launches an

attack

10 Going by, in

brief

11 Chevy truck

since 1998 12 Staple of Trinidadian music

13 Plein-air prop 18 Kelly of morning

talk

22 “Time ___ …” 25 Nonreflective, in a

way 26 Not too much 27 First part of a

triple jump 29 Stole from a

burlesque act 31 With 50-Down, annual June sports event 32 It’s never out of

tune 33 Anathema to an

aesthete

35 Cut down 37 Surpass 39 What some people are dyeing to be? 40 Puckish sort 43 ___ fly 45 Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments 47 Big star, in

Spain 49 If-then-___ (programming construct) 50 See 31-Down 51 Things one might pick up while entering a room

53 Church offering 54 Apply to

55 2024 Olympics

site

58 Focus of the U.S.A.F.’s Project Blue Book (19521969)

60 “Yikes!”

62 Time to

remember

63 ___ white